Storage-structure wall.



G. A. PERFECT. STORAGE STRUCTURE WALL.

, APPLICATION FILED JAN. 20, 190B.

Patented Aug. 16, 1910.

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STORAGE-STRUCTURE WALL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 11), 1910 Application filed January 20, 1908. Serial No. 411,688.'

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES A. Pnnrno'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sunbury in the county of Delaware and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Storage-Stine ally erected and is of great strength and durability.

The invention is embodied in the construction hereinafter described, the invention not being confined to the precise formsofparts shown in the accompanyingdrawings and herein specifically set forth.

In said drawingsFigure 1 is a top plan view of a section of a silo wall including the doorway construction; Fig. 2 is, a side elevation projected from Fig. 1 with parts in section to illustrate details; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the larger block used in the construction; Fig. 4% is a plan view of one of the wires before embedment in the block to show the loop construction.

Like characters of reference in the different views designate corresponding parts.

The blocks are of are torm, and have in their upper and lower horizontal faces 10ngitudinal grooves 4 and 45 to receive cement when the blocks are laid and vertical perforations 5. The whole blocks, so called, are about twice as long as they are thick and wide. The half blocks are employed to permit the forming of the doorway and maintain the breaking of joints in $110 construc- Lion. The. blocks are formed of cement molded in a suitable mold to impart substantia-lly the forms shown. The blocksof both sizes employed at the doorway have at one of their inner corners angular grooves 6. The larger blocks have completely embedded in them short pieces of wire 7 bent to form loops 7 alining with the holes 5. These short pieces of wire are spaced about equally distant from the upper and lower faces of the block and they are separated from each other by a space about equal to that each is from the adjacent horizontal face of the block. The smaller or half block has completely embedded in it a short U-shaped'piece of wire 8 having its legs bent to form loops 8, said loops being located to coincide with the vertical hole in such block. The half blocks also have in one of their inner corners grooves like that designated 6 in Fig. 3.

In erecting the wall of these blocks they are laid, as shown in Fig. 2 and, as before indicated, to break joints, the half blocks alternating with the whole blocks at the side of the doorway. After a course of blocks has been laid the vertical holes in the blocks are filled with soft moist cement, and a short piece of wire, as seen at 9, is inserted in each hole, so that a half of it extends into the block while the other half projects above the block. \Vhen the next course of blocks is laid the projecting portions of the wires 9 enter the vertical openings of the superposed blocks about half way, and, when the soft cement is subsequently put into the holes of said superposed blocks and the cement has hardened, the two courses become tied to gether and locked from. horizontal movement on each other by reason of the engage: ment of said short wires 9 with the blocks at the point where the loops of the horizontal wires occur. The wall is further strengthened against horizontal strains by reason of the laying cement engagingthe grooves 4. and l so that no horlzontal protrusion ofthe ends of the looped embedded wires from the ends of the blocks is necessary. The protrusion of such wires is deemed objectionable because it renders the blocks troublesome to transport and handle and they are exceedat 10*, so as to form a practically continuous rod that passes through the loops of the embedded wires from the bottom to the top of the silo where the rod is suitably secured.

In order that the user may have easy access to the ensilage from the top to the bottom,I provide a ladder consisting of run s 11 each provided with holes 11 at their ends through which the rods 10 are passed as fast as the wall is erected. These rungs can be located at convenient intervals, as, for example, between the horizontal joints of thealternate courses, or as shown in Fig. -2. These rungs, it will be observed, tie together the opposite edges of the doorway or opening in the wall and therefore securely brace the wall at its otherwise weakest point.

In erecting the wall cement or mortar can be laid between the several courses and the grooves in the horizontal faces 4: and 4 c0- operatin therewith help to bind the courses from dis ocation'.

In use the opening or doorway of the silo construction is closed as fast as the ensilage is filled in, by means of wooden blocks 12 cut to fit in the vertical grooves 6 at the inner side of the opposite edges of the wall, saidblocks being held in place by the outward; pressure of the stored ensllage. As the ensilage is removed from the to of the silo these blocks can be readily ta en out and stored away for reuse.

What I- claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: i

1. A storage structure wall, consisting of a series of horizontal courses of superposed cci crete blocks, said blocks each formed of, cement containing completely embedded therein a horizontally arranged wire provided with a loop, each of said blocks also provided with a vertical erforation coin-' ciding with the o ening o the loop of the wire therein com ined with integral rods in said perforations, said rods extending through the line of junction of two vertically adjacent blocks and throu h the loops of the wires of such two vertica y ad'- jacent blocks, said structure having a vertical doorway formed by alternating the said blocks at the side thereof with halfblocks, continuous rods passed through the loops of said blocks ad acent the doorway and rungs engaged by said continuous rods.

2. A storage structure wall consisting of horizontal courses of vertically adjacent concrete blocks, said wall being formed to provide a vertically extending doorway therein, said wall at the doorway formed by horizontal faces, said blocks ee'neee alternately super osed whole and half blocks, substantial y as described, each of said blocks formed with cement-receiving rooves-in its upper and lower horizontal 'aces and with a vertical erforation, looped wires com letely embed ed in said whole blocks witi their loops coinciding'with the perforation therein, and a U-shaped wire embedded in said half blocks, said lastnamed wires provided with loops in their legs, and said legs being horizontally arranged and completely embedded in said blocks, and the loops of said legs coinciding with the vertical perforation in said blocks, combined with rods extending between vertically adjacent blocks and into the loo s of the wires embedded therein, substantial y as described.

3. A storage structure wall consisting of horizontal courses of vertically adjacent concrete blocks, each formed with cement receiving grooves in its upper and lower rovided with vertical perforations and witi horizontally arranged wires completely embedded in the blocks, said wires each containin a loop coinciding with the vertical perforations, and short vertical rofls'in said perforations in the main body of the wall, said rods extending between vertically adjacent blocks and into the loo s of the wires embedded therein, said wal constructed to form a doorway vertically thereof, combined with ladder rungs, having perforations at their ends, said rungs su ported between the sides of the doorway, and continuous rods extending through the rungs, and the rforations and wire loops of the blocks orming the doorway.

CHARLES A. PERFECT.

Witnesses:

MILES GREGORY, LAURA A. GREGORY. 

